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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Gunning Boy Shot Through Heart Fatality When Brothers Went Shooting

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

An 11 - year - old boy fired a shot a rabbit at Gunning yesterday, ran through a patch of briars looking for the animal, and found his 15 - years - old brother dying with a ballet wound…

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15Th Accident Once he had 15 minutes To Live

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 4

LONDON: Eight - year - old Patrick Perkins is in hospital again. This time Patrick is in St,…

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28 Drowned When Tanker Is Wrecked Officeland

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: Twenty-eight members of the crew of the London oil tanker, Clam, 7404 tons, were drowned near Raykjavik (Iceland) yesterday when two lifeboats, capsized…

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Solicitor Hurt in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 5

A man was admitted to Goulburn District Hospital after a collision between his car and a taxi in Ellesmere…

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Hand Injured in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

A man suffered a probable fracture to the right hand when a semi-trailer he was driving came into collision…

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Utility and Car Collide Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 4

Two men were injured when an utility truck and a car collided near Berrima, yesterday morning…

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Boy Injured In Fall From Horse

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 1

A 12-year-old boy suffered a fractured forearm when he fell from his horse in Bishop Street yesterday…

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Tragedy at Marulan Accidental Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. P. Jackson, at an inquest into the…

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Cyclist Lost His Leg in Accident Alleged Negligent Driving

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 4

In the Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday a man told how lie tried to stand after an accident, fell over backwards, and found himself sitting on his own severed leg…

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Plane Ends In Restaurant 15 Were Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 1

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, Wednesday: A mustang fighters plane yesterday ploughed into an Airforce…

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Accidental Death Verdict in Laggan Road Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 8

After taking evidence in the Coroner's Court at Crookwell on Monday, March 13, the District Coroner, Mr. L. E. Goodhew,…

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Gunning News Yass Street Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 5

On Saturday week last a new Australian named Bob Luzska was hit by a motor car in Yass Street, Gunning, and knocked to the…

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Motorist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 8

Felix Abela, 22, Old Show-ground, Yass oRad, was taken by Goulburn Ambulance from Auburn Street, suffering from…

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Ring Judge Injured At Boorowa Show

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 1

Mr. S. A. Cullen, of Laggan, who officiated as ring Judge at the Boorowa. Show last week, was the victim of an incident…

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Taralga and District News 3-Year-old Boy Meets with Serious Accident at Yalbraith

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 10

The sympathy of the whole district is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Keith in their anxiety over the condition of their three-year-old son, Charles, who met with a serious accident at his home on Monday, March 20…

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Another Man Believed to Be Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Twenty-one-year old John spence is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Bell River at…

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Injured Knee

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

Mrs. T. Pusey, of 93 Faithfull Street, fell and injured her knee at her home yesterday afternoon. Goulburn Ambulance took…

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Petrol Waggon Blows Up Fireman Killed And Two Others Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

BATHURST: Rescue gangs worked frantically throughout the night to extricate the body of a railway fireman pinned under the engine of a goods…

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Many Drowned Barge Capsizes

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 5

OPORTO, Portugal, Friday: A barge carrying scores of men and women, textile workers, sank in the Douro River last night and…

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Boy Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 April 1950 · page 2

Charles Riley, 9, of Australia Street, Goulburn, cut the first finger of his right hand with a razor blade yesterday morning…

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